The Bloodshed of Winter

Well this is fun

"What?"
"You heard me." Ace's dad said.
"But how is she dead?" Ace asked.
"Car crash, Ace."
"No." Ace said.
"Yes Ace." His dad said.
Ace ran off the stage, leaving his family standing there awkwardly.
Aaron kept asking questions and we answered them. The second we were done. I ran to find Ace. He was face down in a hallway.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"What does it look like." He asked.
"Like your kissing the carpet."
He sat up and looked me dead in the eye. "Your mom died, how did it feel when she did?"
"I was seven, one second I was sad, the next, I was with Grecia playing princesses, I didn't know her as much as I wish I did." I said.
"Well I'm seventeen, and I've known her for my entire life, and you think I'm kissing a carpet."
"Yes I do."
"Obviously I'm making out with it." He said.
"Oh, how dare I say kissing instead of making out."
Ace managed a smile.
I pulled him to his feet and we walked to his room.
I was about to walk away when his hand clasped my shoulder.
"Don't go." He said.
"I have to sleep." I said.
"But-." His lower lip began to tremble.
"Fine."
He clapped his hands and I walked into his room.
"I'm tired." He yawned.
"The beds right there."
"I'm aware." He said.
Somehow, he was holding himself together. Instead of bursting out in tears, he wouldn't let himself cry, but surly that would change.
He threw himself onto his bed and told me to turn off the light.
I did.
I curled up next to him and soon fell asleep.
In the middle of the night I woke up.
Ace was awake. He sat up with his head in his hands. He was crying.
"Ace?" I asked.
"Sorry." He wiped a tear from his cheek.
"No, don't be." I said.
He lied back down and put his head on my chest.
"I don't want to do this." He said.
"Do what?"
"I don't want to live without her."
"But Ace, she isn't really gone."
"Don't." He said.
"Don't what?"
"Don't start with that 'she isn't gone, she's in your heart.' I don't want to hear it."
"Ace, if theres anything I can do-." I started.
"You can't bring back the dead, so there isn't anything you can do."
I didn't know how to respond, so I stayed silent.
"Adi, I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what?"
"Everything. I've been such an idiot and I only paid attention to myself, I shouldn't have been so self-centered."
"But you weren't and you aren't."
"Yes I was."
"No you weren't."
"Adi, everything I do, I screw up."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do."
"You didn't screw up when you said I was cute, everyone thought that was hilarious."
"That's probably the one time."
"And when you saved my life from that bear thing."
"Twice, and only twice."
"And you saved Runas life, you built an entire hut that withstood storms and stood for weeks until the fire."
"I did it for the sake of it."
"No, you did it from the kindness in your heart."
He went silent for a few seconds.
"You are amazing Ace."
"I'm the worst."
"No, you aren't Ace."
"Stop saying that."
"Not until you stop saying your the worst."
He went silent.
"Ace?"
"What."
"There are plenty of people who love you."
"Like...?"
"Me, your siblings, and all of your friends."
"I have like no friends."
"Yes you do."
He stopped talking and started crying.
I wasn't so sure what to do anymore, I wasn't sure if I should keep talking, or stay silent. I went with stay silent.
At some point we must have fallen asleep, because I woke the next morning to birds chirping.
A frantic knock at the door began.
"I'll get it." I said.
I opened the door. "Oh there you are, you weren't in your room." Grecia said.
"I was here."
"Obviously." She said "Sky wants to know if your coming to breakfast."
"Yeah." I sighed. "Be there in five."
"Okay!" Grecia ran down the hallway.
I turned to Ace.
"You going to come?" I asked him.
"Yeah, be there later." He muttered.
"M'Kay." I said as I went to my room. My room was only down the hall, thank god I didn't have to walk to far.
I threw on some clothes. A yellow tank top and black shorts. I put my hair up in a ponytail and went to the dining room.
Adryan and Evan were there, talking with Jaxson.
"There's my queen, come sit girl." Adryan said.
I sat in an empty seat next to him and grinned "I didn't know you were staying overnight.
"Of course I was going to, free hotel room in California, I couldn't say no."
He was dressed in a cropped yellow shirt with a sun on it. He wore jean shorts and sunglasses even though the room wasn't sunny.
"Of course, free room with room service, I wouldn't decline either."
"Of course you wouldn't girl."
I laughed, Adryan had this voice that was hilarious. He spoke with a sassy hint in his voice, making me laugh whenever he spoke. I loved it.
"Where's your boyfriend?" Adryan asked.
"He isn't my boyfriend, and he's coming." I said.
"Well the way he looks at you and you look at him says otherwise."
"Oh shut up."
"Anyways, girl, where did you find this outfit, it is gorgeous."
"Dunno, it was in my closet."
"I was once in the closet." Adryan said.
"We know."
Evan was rather quiet. He wore black rimmed glasses and a black beanie. His hair was a deep shade of teal, a color I would love to have my hair, but I never had time to do it.
"Your hair is gorgeous Evan." I said.
He blushed a bit "Thanks, I did it myself a month ago."
"That's pretty cool." I smiled.
Just as Evan was about to respond, Ace ran in.
"Guys I think I did something and it isn't good."
Just then smoke detector alarms went off and the room filled with smoke.